Mike Myers hints at political satire in upcoming ‘Austin Powers’ sequel

Actor Mike Myers joked throughout an interview Wednesday that he might neither affirm nor deny the “existence or nonexistence” of political commentary in a attainable fourth “Austin Powers” movie.

An interviewer from Selection requested Myers whether or not a fourth “Austin Powers” movie would “replicate” the present political panorama.

“I can neither affirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of such a commentary,” Myers stated. “I imply the world has occurred. But it surely’s a a lot happier world, Austin’s world, so it has been plenty of enjoyable. I am actually having fun with it.”

Myers additionally prompt that motion pictures want a lighter tone. His remarks a few cultural shift towards love and away from worry got here shortly after Democrats scored victories within the midterm elections. 

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“Oh my God, yeah, I am so completely happy that is out. We want rather more foolish,” Myers stated whereas attending the premiere of “Focker-In-Legislation,” the newest movie within the “Meet the Dad and mom” franchise.

“However I’ve to say, in the previous few weeks, I feel worry has had it and love is on the way in which again,” he added. 

“The wave of happiness, the blue wave?” the interviewer requested.

“No, properly, it’s not — no matter left or proper, although I’m a lefty, I’m Canadian, I’m a progressive voter, all the time have been,” Myers stated. “I simply suppose we’re sick of worry, and we would like extra love, and if something, that’s what the ‘Austin Powers’ film is gonna be about.”

“What the world wants now’s love, candy love, within the phrases of Burt Bacharach, an incredible American poet,” Myers stated, referring to the musician whose music has appeared within the “Austin Powers” movies and who made cameo appearances within the franchise. “That’s why I actually wished to do that film right now, as a result of I need us to — we want some foolish. We want some foolish, we want some completely happy, we want some love.”

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Mike Myers performs Austin Powers in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” (New Line Cinema by way of Getty)

The “Austin Powers” franchise is a comedy movie sequence that parodies basic James Bond motion pictures and the spy style.

Myers has grow to be extra outspoken about politics in recent times, parodying Tesla CEO Elon Musk on “Saturday Night time Dwell” and criticizing President Donald Trump’s efforts to carry Canada underneath U.S. management. He advised The New York Instances in 2025, whereas Musk was concerned with the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), “Fascism doesn’t wish to be ridiculed; it likes to be feared,” and that, “Satire is a crucial device within the toolbox to say that this isn’t regular — that the cuts he’s making aren’t regular.”

Fox Information Digital spoke with movie critic Christian Toto, host of the “Hollywood in Toto” podcast, about Myers’ remarks on the attainable sequel.

Toto praised the sooner movies as enjoyable comedies however questioned whether or not followers would welcome political commentary. 

“I do not suppose the final three movies have been political in any respect,” he stated. “I can not think about any fan would say, ‘Gosh I need Austin Powers again, however provided that he does a No Kings rally.’ I do not see that taking place in any respect, do not see anybody actually craving that. So, I feel Mike Myers could be silly to go in that route, and I do not suppose he’ll.”

“So when a journalist began to press Mike Myers of ‘Saturday Night time Dwell’ fame a few attainable fourth ‘Austin Powers?’ Nicely, he took the bait and did not fairly take the bait on the similar time,” Toto continued. “They requested him if the brand new movie could be extra political, a fourth attainable ‘Austin Powers.’ He stated, properly, he is engaged on it, however did not fairly see it that method.”

“He is sort of left it a bit open, saying something goes, however extra actually pressed into the entire, ‘I simply need to make folks chortle,’ ‘We want somewhat extra love and enjoyable nowadays.’ I feel that was his major aim and, given the final three movies, which have been utterly apolitical, I feel that is what we are able to anticipate. I simply hope the brand new one’s humorous if it ever occurs,” Toto added.

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Mike Myers additionally performed different roles reminiscent of “Dr. Evil” in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” (Getty Photographs)

“Hollywood all the time needs to get political, and the business typically does. With late night time, it is simple, see a headline make a riff on it later that night time,” Toto stated. He famous, nevertheless, that motion pictures take for much longer to supply, which means political occasions that when dominated headlines could now not be related by the point a movie is launched.

“So I feel if Mike Myers even wished to get political with ‘Austin Powers,’ he is gotta suppose that via, that it hasn’t begun but. I do not even know if the script is prepared. There is a course of there. So I feel in the event you wished to poke enjoyable at ICE or Trump or something occurring now, boy that might look actually stale and make the movie actually dusty, and it is already an older property, not an excellent signal,” Toto warned.

A few of Myers’ current initiatives have acquired combined critiques, together with his 2022 miniseries, “The Pentaverate,” which parodied conspiracy theories about secret societies. Some critics discovered its political humor dated, with one reviewer expressing concern {that a} fourth “Austin Powers” movie might undergo from comparable issues.

Humor web site Cracked wrote on the time, “A giant subject in The Pentaverate is that it not solely seems like Mike Myers hasn’t made comedy in a decade, it seems like he hasn’t been on earth for a number of years,” including, “The commentator makes use of plenty of dated far proper propaganda, most notably of which is Hillary’s emails, a reference nobody has made since 2017.”

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“Please, please, please, in the event that they inexperienced mild one other Austin Powers, let it’s higher than The Pentaverate,” the evaluate concluded.